Rage Against the Machine to Reunite For Coachella Music Festival

Billboard has reported the following on Tom Morello's one man side project, The Nightwatchman, on Audioslave's current state of affairs, and on a possible Rage Against the Machine reunion:

Guitarist Tom Morello takes the mic for the first time on "One Man Revolution," his debut album as the Nightwatchman. Due April 24 via Epic, the 13-track set was produced by Brendan O'Brien and sports acoustic-based compositions that are a far cry from the heavy guitar rock Morello has purveyed in Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave.

The artist has been utilizing the Nightwatchman moniker for the past three years for performances, and has of late been hosting a Tuesday night residency at Los Angeles' Hotel Cafe. Among the guests that have dropped by recently are System Of A Down's Serj Tankian, Cypress Hill's Sen Dog and Perry Farrell.

Morello will tour this spring, including an appearance at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in mid-March. But perhaps of most interest to hardcore fans are rumors that Rage Against The Machine may be reuniting for the first time in six-plus years to play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this spring.

An event spokesperson was not available for comment on the possibility of a Rage performance.

After Rage split in 2000, Morello formed Audioslave with his old band's rhythm section of Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk. However, Audioslave is on hiatus while frontman Chris Cornell records a solo album and has no plans to tour in support of its third album, "Revelations," released last fall.And while Audioslave refused to play Rage songs live on its early tours, the band eventually began incorporating them into its sets in summer 2005.

As for Rage frontman Zach de la Rocha, little has been heard from him since the breakup, although he is said to be on good terms with his ex-bandmates.

I used to like them until i got sick of the political crap in every single one of their songs.Now they are a band that bore the hell out of me and i had a smile on my face the day they ended..should have known it was too good to be true.

i agree REMEMBER, but why hasnt zach been out with anything? i would be really excited if they were inspired by todays state of affairs and recorded something new and relevant .its cool yeah ,but why?$?

rage was and is on of my favorite bands, even with all the political sh**, ( which actally,anyone who knows my posts know i love to argue political sh**), maybe thats why i like ratm so much... anyway, I'M BACK, AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAA....HIMMM!!!

too true, after an extended stay in hell, ( toothless arkansas), where the only metal is in the plates in their heads, it's good to be back in civilization. it was kind of fun blasting morbid angel and scaring the sh** out of all the "townfolk" though.....HIMMM!!!!

The cool thing about RATM's politics is that everyone was the enemy. Foriegn and domestic. The left were seen as weak, indifferent, unrealistic liars and the right were seen as greedy destructive and hypocrites.

When the "Battle of LA" came out the U.S. was in this odd transitional period brought about by Bush and Clinton. The bottom was about to fall out of the economy and a fool (Gore or Bush) was going to elected. It was an uncertain record for uncertain times.

RATM would be more significant today than they have been since their debut.